Soto-Pérez, Manuel http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2298-2047
Ávila-Palet, Jose-Enrique http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4340-4024
Núñez-Ríos, Juan E. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3962-4334
Article History
Accepted: 24 May 2021
First Online: 28 May 2021
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: This article is the authors' original work, hasn't received prior publication and isn't under consideration for publication elsewhere.
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: This study fulfils its objective by providing statistical evidence that justice and deontology positively influence moral meaningfulness, promoting CB and in-role performance. As for relativistic and utilitarian ideologies, no evidence was obtained that they significantly influence moral meaningfulness. Regarding ideology of egoism negatively influenced moral meaningfulness, which had inverse effects on CB and in-role performance. In other words, the higher a student’s level of egoism, the lower his or her level of moral meaningfulness, citizenship behaviours and in-role performance.Furthermore, this study proposed a multidimensional analysis of academic performance by separating it into CB, in-role performance, and academic achievement. According to the statistical evidence of the present study, justice and deontology increase moral meaningfulness. Moral meaningfulness enhances CB and in-role performance. Moreover, CB influences also in-role performance. Finally, in-role performance enhances academic achievement. Consequently, justice may be a factor that fosters citizenship behaviours, while deontology may be a factor that fosters in-role performance. The relationships analysed empirically in this study were not found in any previous study.The results contribute to the literature by extending research relating to ethics and performance by analysing the influence of ethical ideologies on academic performance, which had been poorly understood. These contributions enable teachers to establish strategies to develop ideologies of justice and deontology in their students while discouraging egoism, thus enhancing moral meaningfulness, citizenship behaviours and in-role performance. Moreover, the results of this study also highlight that the ideologies of egoism, utilitarianism and relativism exalted by contemporary society had a negative or null influence on moral meaningfulness and academic performance, which could motivate a reflection in order to appreciate more justice and duty to be.The findings of this study will directly benefit educators, educational institutions, parents, and students by clarifying which ideologies to foster and which to diminish in order to promote students' academic performance. The results will also provide greater insight into how to develop students with low levels of CB, in-role performance, or academic achievement. Finally, schools can establish strategies to encourage justice and ethics within their curriculum and specifically through ethics courses or case studies.In the future, this analysis of ethical ideologies should be extended where cultural aspects of different regions and countries can be contrasted for the academic field. On the other hand, it is also important to note that there remain gaps in the literature in identifying how ethical ideologies influence performance, specifically what other variables mediate this relationship in addition to moral meaningfulness. Another aspect that can be improved in this research is increasing the number of scenarios that students judge using the MES to understand better the relationship between ethics and academic performance.A limitation of this study is that the sampling method used was non-probability and convenience, and for that reason extrapolating the results for the entire population beyond the sample will be questionable. Another limitation of this study is that only one scenario was used to apply the MES, thus restricting the understanding of the problem to a limited perspective. However, the results show the relevance of making a more significant investment in resources to obtain a sample and data that avoids these characteristics.